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Brooks Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility located in San Antonio, Texas, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Downtown San Antonio. In 2002, Brooks Air Force Base was renamed Brooks City-Base when the property was conveyed to the Brooks Development Authority as part of a project between local, state, and federal government.
Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, previously named Gosport Field, Kelly Field No. 5 and Brooks Field, was established in 1917 shortly after the United States entered World War I and served primarily as a flying base during World Wars I and II.
Two decades after the city of San Antonio took over the former Brooks AFB, its 1,300 acres has been nearly filled with housing, manufacturing plants, schools, hotel rooms, restaurants, a hospital, offices and parks. Now, its leaders are looking outside the base’s borders to keep its economic engine pumping on the South Side.
Brooks Air Force Base is conveyed to BDA creating “Brooks City Base,” a unique partnership among the U.S. Air Force, the City of San Antonio, the State of Texas and the Brooks Development Authority.
Brooks City-Base was officially closed September 15, 2011. Today Brooks is one of 40 former installations managed by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center in San Antonio, Texas. Brooks...
Brooks Air Force Base is on State Loop 13 seven miles southeast of San Antonio, just west of Interstate Highway 37 in Bexar County. The site occupies about 1,300 acres. After the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army established the facility to train flying instructors in the Gosport System.
The government entity working for over two decades to redevelop the decommissioned Brooks Air Force Base announced that it has reached a significant economic milestone while promising more to come. Through new development bringing jobs and housing to Brooks, more than $1.2 billion has been invested since the Brooks Development Authority took ...
Hangar 9 is a historic aircraft hangar at Brooks City-Base, the former Brooks Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas. Built in 1918, it is the oldest U.S. Air Force aircraft storage and repair facility, and is the only surviving hangar, other than the ASUW Shellhouse, from World War I.
Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, previously named Gosport Field, Kelly Field No. 5 and Brooks Field, was established in 1917 shortly after the United States entered World War I and served primarily as a flying base during World Wars I and II.
Brooks Air Force Base closed in 2011 under Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) procedures. The site of the former base is now being redeveloped by the Brooks Development Authority. Hangar 9 is no longer open to the public.